Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing

Press release from McClelland & Stewart to Toronto Star, 24 July 1963, re Naked Lunch & Metro Police Morality Squad
The winter of time / by Raymond Holmes
Memo from Bosun [Farley] Mowat to Mr. Liquid-Lunch [Jack] McClelland. Esk. [sic], 20 January 1960
Pen and ink drawing by Thoreau MacDonald for Mountain Cloud by Marius Barbeau, [1944]

This site features nearly 100 case studies – short essays written by Canadian scholars – on topics relating to Canadian publishing. The case studies are augmented with letters, photographs, multimedia, and other materials from publishers’ and authors’ archives at McMaster University Library, Queen’s University Archives, and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto).

Peace & War in the 20th Century

Corkran, Victor S., Letter, 28 July 1921
Brittain, Vera, Letter, 6 May 1917
Abbott, Jane, Diary, 1 August 1914
Canadian Peace Congress, Peace pin, [1983 or after]

This interactive, thematic website on Peace and War in the 20th Century has been designed to be informative, educational and engaging. Its major themes have been organized into the opposing paths of Waging Peace and Waging War. Within the themes, case studies provide context and insights. International conflicts are represented by the images and official records available in McMaster University Library’s archives. We invite you to explore Peace and War in the 20th Century.

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection

letter, From: Wrobel, Stefania and Fryda To: Wrobel, Franz - Sachsenhausen 29 October 1943.
envelope, From: Pillny, Rudolf To: Pillny, Angela in Paulsdorf - Gusen n.d. [used 10-1940 to 11-1941]
letter, From: Faltus, Jaroslav To: Faltus, Julius - Floßenürg 21 February 1943
[field_source-formatted], From: Hoffmann, Max To: Hoffmann, Maria in Hohenlinde - Dachau 3 September 1944

World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection. The collection has correspondences available from these camps: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dondanen, Dora, Fallersleben, Floßenürg, Groß-Rosen, Gusen, Herzogenbusch, Janowska, Jungfernhof, Kaiserwalk, Kauen, Klooga, Kurtenhof, Lemberg, Lublin, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Mittelbau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Plaszow, Ravenbrück, Riga, Sachsenhausen, Salapils, Sangerhausen, Struthof, Stuttof, Torgau, Vaivara, Vught, Warschau, and Wewelsberg.

Digital Russell

Time and modality : being the John Locke Lectures for 1955-6 delivered in the University of Oxford
Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909., , 1910;
The semi-attached couple : and, The semi-detached house : two novels / by the Honourable Emily Eden.
Words and things

McMaster University is home to the scholarly study of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate. The Bertrand Russell Archives came to McMaster Library in 1968, where they are in the Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Russell's library is part of the Russell Archives, along with his correspondence, manuscripts, tapes, films, photographs, medals and permanently displayed writing desk.